LOCAL
“Economic localization, which means shrinking the distances between producer and consumer of our basic needs, can drastically reduce resource and energy use, while redistributing economic power from big corporations to many smaller businesses – businesses that are far more accountable to democratic laws and to the communities they serve.” - Local Futures
YOUR FARMER
Paul is passionate about regenerative agriculture and cannabis farming as well as investing in local community sovereignty. Paul currently lives in St. Paul, MN and is farming hemp on regenerative farmland in southern Minnesota while investing in local regenerative farm projects with his Solo 401k. Paul is deeply inspired by several books: Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein, Local Is Our Future by Helena Norberg-Hodge, The Soul of Money by Lynn Twist, Owning Our Future by Marjorie Kelly and Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva. In the big picture he believes in what Charles Eisenstein calls The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible and investing in that. Paul sees this as investing in healing (starting locally). Paul is a member of several aligned organizations including Land Stewardship Project and Regenerative Agriculture Alliance.
Food Sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce, distribute and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations.
—Declaration of Nyéléni, the first global forum on Food Sovereignty, Mali, 2007
sovereignty
sŏv′ər-ĭn-tē, sŏv′rĭn
above the king; above rule;
above reign; not a subject;
"who am I to be?"
